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We will put wireless on NanoNote(II)

Sat, 2011-05-07 20:10 — David Samblas

We have already recived the PCB boards of the AtBen and AtUSB, what is this? if you don't know the anwer please take a look to our previous post We will put wireless on NanoNote, we also already send some of this boards to the SMT factory to let them start to ironing the components. Once we know the definitive delivery date we will start the pre-order process. Stay tunned!
You can see more images of the PCB boards inside the post

Ardupollo!!!... digo.. Fuimos a la Arduino Barcam V en Castellón

Thu, 2011-05-05 13:41 — David Samblas

Lo siento , se hablaron de otros temas muy interesantes y en profundidad en nuestro viaje relámpago a Castellón para asistir a la V Arduino Barcamp; Arduino en la Educación por parte de Eduardo Gallego Profesor encargado de la maravillosa iniciativa que es Complubot, las características técnicas de los robots tricampeones del mundo de robot soccer RoboCup junior, la presencia de David Cuartielles , al cual por fin tuvimos el privilegio de conocer en persona, pero llamadnos infantiloides si quereis, pero lo que mas atrajo nuestra atención fue lo que , para desespero de su creadora de 10 años Lucia del equipo Complubot, bautizamos como ArduPollo, foto-cronica y video del evento en interior del post.

We will put wireless on NanoNote

Mon, 2011-04-04 08:20 — David Samblas

We start to feel comfortable on this of producing hardware, so after our positive experienceo with the UBB, Tuxbrain will produce the AtBen y AtUSB to enchance NanoNote with 802.15.4 WPAN wireless capabilities, this post is to announce that production has already started, and first units will be ready on mid/end May.
The avobe pictures are the prototypes made by the skilled hands of Werner Almesberger , who has already reported comunication between two Ben Nanonotes using the stack of linux-zigbee project.
A carlification wireless is not WI FI , on Qi Hardware we don't go a step forward if is not towards freedom, and sadly there is no real free hardware alternative on 802.11(Wi-Fi) yet, so we decide to desing and produce a total copyleft hardware for 802.15.4 (Wireless Personal Area Network WPAN) for protocols based on it like 6LoWPAN or Zigbee, from our part we will focus on 6LoWPAN due is protocol open, free and under the standards of the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force)

All production (PCB+SMT) will be done in Spain :)

More info once the prototypes arrive in our hands :)

Ardunote project: Arduino + NanoNote

Fri, 2011-03-11 09:01 — David Samblas

On Tuxbrain, thanks to the Qi-Hardware , AVRFreaks communities and to the little UBB board, we have successfully flash an Arduino board from Ben NanoNote without need of external power, directly connecting a cable from the NanoNote 8:10 bay to the ICSP header on Arduino, also without need of bootloader in the Atmega328 chip, in fact NanoNote can flash the bootloaders :), and in theory Nanonote can flash whatever avrdude compatible chip without need of any board (untested yet). Making the little Ben the first AVR microcontroller programmer in the world able to edit the source code, building it, listen music or play Supertux at same time, in same device, not bad for only 99€ ;)

From this starting point, we have founded a project called, in a fit of originality, ArduNote, that has as goal make the NanoNote a (even more) useful tool for Arduino and the rest of the AVR family. Right now is less more than a mission statement but in that wiki page we will try to collect all available information related to interaction between this two free(as freedom) hardware platforms, for now enjoy the video demo , and if you decide to jump in , if you buy a NanoNote and a Arduino we will include for free a UBB board and the components needed (cable, ICSP connector and schottky diode) to make the cable than appears in the video

We enlarge our product offer with "standard" devices

Fri, 2011-02-25 02:20 — David Samblas

As we have pointed in our pre-fosdem video, on Tuxbrain we are moving to enlarge the product offer of our webshop , now we have included more than 400 computer and electronics devices.

NanoNote's first (and basic) addon UBB

Thu, 2011-02-17 19:55 — David Samblas

UBB stands for Universal Breakout Board is a tiny PCB in 8:10 form factor that expose the 8 contacts of the NanoNote 8:10 card slot allowing to connect to other devices, modules, or DIY things without need to solder directly on the NanoNote PCB.

Now collecting preorders
Estimated shipping day 5th March 2011

Bruselas, Europe's capital

Tue, 2011-02-08 16:57 — David Samblas

Where cars goes backwards and Russian is spoken at bars ... and also put mules in your chips.
Right, any of this has any sense, but who cares, we have a clear objective, enjoy this year knowing in advance we have one, our little stand on FOSDEM 2011, before we go to the photos(video on later post as usual) I want to thank all who have visit our stand to wave, both the new ones an those who repeat, thanks to FOSDEM organization, the make us feel like home, thanks to our friends of Hackable Devices to let us that valuable piece of table, boys and girls on Qi Hardware for crating such wonderful marvels that are NanoNote , Milkymist and the next ones to come, to developers of Jlime, to SDGSystems to let us the valuable and powerful Nomad and Yuma and show the world Linux can be secure inside and barely indestructible on outside, also to hundred of people that ask us if NanoNote has Wifi ,why it don't have, and when it will have it, I had miss the count around the 267 but also thank you to them too. Thanks to all followers, costumers, curious, developers, collaborators, family and friends to make us able be there one more time. Photos on inside the post.

Going out the cave, FOSDEM2011 here we go!

Fri, 2011-02-04 01:48 — David Samblas

After some period working on background, working with other projects and preparing this new year 2011, we have been not stopped at all :), we don't have stopped on colaboration on Qi-hardware[1] and Arduino[2] projects, we were also rebuilding our webshop on the inside an the visible part too, finding new devices to work on and include them in our catalog, an well quite some more things we well start along this year[3] , and what better way show that things than at FOSDEM 2011 , thanks to our friends from Hackable Devices we will share stand with them and Golden Delicious. We will expose there the products and projects we are working on like NanoNote, MilkyMist, Arduino and also anounce our colaboration with Nan Tic porting his OpenErp client app Koo to make it run on Rugged Handhelds and POS hardware.
I you will go there and pass near the stands[4] don't hesitate to wave, take a look, exange opinions or simple put a face and voice on that IRC or mail , we will love to meet you there.

[1] That is the latests news from Qi-Hardware
[2]we will do an Arduino Barcam inside the 1UP Barcam on Sabadell
[3]a minute video (in spanish) about what we are planing for this year

[4]The stand is located in the hallway of building AW

See you there :)

Arduino The Documentary now online

Sun, 2011-01-09 18:16 — David Samblas

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Arduino The Documentary now online

Arduino The Documentary is finally out. We have been waiting for long, but now you can see it at Vimeo (EN, ES) and download it from Archive.org (EN, ES). The file is licensed under CC-SA 3.0 and can be redistributed. The makers are working in making a batch of DVDs that will include the full interviews as well as footage of the different locations where the documentary was made (ITP, Parsons, Adafruit, Rockwellgroup, and Makerbot New York; Medialab Prado and IES Miguel Hernandez, Madrid; Laboral Centro de Arte, Gijon). Here the documentary in English:

Workshops on demand, talleres bajo demanda

Fri, 2010-10-08 01:54 — David Samblas

As we have mentioned on a previous post(in spanish), we have adapted our site to handle workshops and courses on demand basis, and as result of this our website has been invaded by color penguins. What those little penguins means? Where the workshops will be done? when? are you sure this strange coloured baloons are penguins? Some answers will come further reading.